Prodipodomys

Prodipodomys

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeteromyidaePBDB
Diet
granivore, browserPBDB, for Heteromyidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Heteromyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 1.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 210 ka.

Miocene — about 6 of 50 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 23 of 50 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 21 of 50 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 50 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10.0–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.1–8.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.7–8.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.4–6.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.1–5.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.6–5.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.2–4.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.3–3.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.9–3.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.6–2.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.2–1.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.7–1.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.3–867 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences867 ka–433 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences433 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4 Mya1.4 Mya13 Mya0 Mya

50 occurrences of Prodipodomys on record, most of them in the Pliocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

50 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

14 formations

San Timoteo — 33.90°N, 117.00°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WVerde — 34.77°N, 111.85°WVerde — 34.77°N, 112.05°WSt. David — 32.00°N, 110.20°WRexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WGlenns Ferry — 42.80°N, 114.90°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WBallard — 37.20°N, 100.30°WPanaca — 37.80°N, 114.30°WWhite Narrows — 35.70°N, 115.20°WLove — 31.50°N, 105.20°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°W

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The named rock units Prodipodomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prodipodomys and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Prodipodomys and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

439 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Prodipodomys, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

28 references

Each of the 50 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 16 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Prodipodomys

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Prodipodomys was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHeteromyidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hibbard 1939